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Macs and macOS: new hardware and what reviewers measured, macOS changes worth knowing about, and the Mac apps and accessories that use them. Includes the Intel Macs Apple has stopped supporting and the projects keeping them running.

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Mac

8 Oct 20263 min read

Apple drops Intel Macs from the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad compatibility lists, though both still work with them

Apple's pages for the USB-C Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad now list only Apple silicon Macs, yet still ask for macOS 15.1, which Intel Macs run.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

7 Oct 20263 min read

NullMoth's free Nvidia driver runs Metal 3 on an RTX 5060 in macOS Sequoia, with SIP and Secure Boot switched off

A new third-party driver brings Metal 3 to Nvidia RTX cards on Intel macOS for the first time since High Sierra, but needs SIP and Secure Boot weakened.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

7 Oct 20264 min read

Can an organisation turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27? MDM blocks it feature by feature, never as a whole

macOS 27 MDM settings can disable Writing Tools, Genmoji, Siri AI and more one by one, but nothing removes Apple Intelligence or stops its model download.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

6 Oct 20263 min read

WiCi One promises a Wi-Fi 7 Nvidia GPU for Macs, though Apple still supports eGPUs only on Intel Macs

WiCi One puts an RTX 5060 Ti or RTX 5090 in a box that talks to a Mac over Wi-Fi 7. What it claims, what it costs, and why Apple's eGPU support is not the limit.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

6 Oct 20264 min read

Apple plans a second October launch, likely Macs, MacRumors sources say, as macOS 27.2 beta 3 adds touch gestures

MacRumors' sources say Apple has new products for the last week of October, most likely Macs, as macOS 27.2 beta 3 adds touch gesture code to Apple's apps.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

Safari's Describe Extension builds a browser extension from a sentence, within limits Apple spells out

Safari in iOS 27 and macOS 27 builds extensions from a written description. Apple says they cannot load remote content, use outside services or read files.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

macOS 27 lets third-party HDR monitors keep HDR at scaled resolutions such as 2560 x 1440

On macOS Tahoe, picking a scaled resolution on a third-party HDR monitor switched HDR off. macOS 27 allows both, 9to5Mac found, but not on an M1 Max.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

OpenCore Legacy Patcher 3.0 beta brings macOS Tahoe to older Intel Macs, the last macOS they can ever run

OpenCore Legacy Patcher's 3.0 release candidates add macOS Tahoe to Intel Macs Apple no longer supports. As macOS 27 is Apple silicon only, it is the last stop.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20265 min read

What reviewers found in the M5 Pro Mac mini: more cores and Thunderbolt 5, and an M6 that beats it at AI

Three reviews of the M5 Pro Mac mini agree it is fast and that $1,699 is a lot. AppleInsider found the cheaper M6 model quicker at on-device AI.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

How to back up an iPhone to an external drive on a Mac, when Finder only offers the internal disk

Finder backs up an iPhone to the Mac's internal disk and offers no way to change it. A symbolic link moves the backup to an external drive. How, and the catches.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

OLED MacBook Pro will be significantly lighter, Bloomberg's Gurman reports, as Apple's 13 October event is confirmed

Bloomberg reports Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro is significantly lighter than today's 4.7 pound 16-inch model. Apple has said nothing. No weight is given.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Mac

5 Oct 20264 min read

Asahi Linux brings first M4 Mac and MacBook Neo support to Linux 7.4, enough to boot and little else

Linux 7.4 is set to describe six M4 Macs and the A18 Pro MacBook Neo for the first time. The kernel will boot on them. There is no GPU support.

Pinkesh Gajera

MacMac

Apple drops Intel Macs from the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad compatibility lists, though both still work with them

NullMoth's free Nvidia driver runs Metal 3 on an RTX 5060 in macOS Sequoia, with SIP and Secure Boot switched off

Can an organisation turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27? MDM blocks it feature by feature, never as a whole

WiCi One promises a Wi-Fi 7 Nvidia GPU for Macs, though Apple still supports eGPUs only on Intel Macs

Apple plans a second October launch, likely Macs, MacRumors sources say, as macOS 27.2 beta 3 adds touch gestures

Safari's Describe Extension builds a browser extension from a sentence, within limits Apple spells out

macOS 27 lets third-party HDR monitors keep HDR at scaled resolutions such as 2560 x 1440

OpenCore Legacy Patcher 3.0 beta brings macOS Tahoe to older Intel Macs, the last macOS they can ever run

What reviewers found in the M5 Pro Mac mini: more cores and Thunderbolt 5, and an M6 that beats it at AI

How to back up an iPhone to an external drive on a Mac, when Finder only offers the internal disk

OLED MacBook Pro will be significantly lighter, Bloomberg's Gurman reports, as Apple's 13 October event is confirmed

Asahi Linux brings first M4 Mac and MacBook Neo support to Linux 7.4, enough to boot and little else

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